Storage-receptacle for cars



(No Model.)

G. W. TURNER. STORAGE REGEPTAGLE FOR CARS.

No. 452,247. Patented May 12,1891.

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, UNITE STATES,

GEORGE W. TURNER, OF SOUTH OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

STOR-AG E-IRECEPTACILVE' FOR CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,247, dated May 12, 1891. Application filed December 11, 1890. erial No. 374,302. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

. Be it known that I, GEORGE W. TURNER, of South Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invent-ed a new and useful Improvement in Storage-Receptacles for Cars, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in storage-receptacles for cars, and has forits object to provide 'a device for use upon railway cars or coaches, and having compartments for the reception of, for instance, condition-cards of defects and a chamber or chambers for the reception of bills of lading, instructions,or other advices, the device being soconstructed that its contents will be kept perfectly clean and will be readily accessible when required.

A further object of theinvention is to provide a means whereby the device may be suspended beneath the car and readily reached from either side of the same.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, inwhich similarfiguresand letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a transverse section through a portion of a car, illustrating the application of the device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device, the rail upon which it travels being in longitudinal section, the section being Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Figs. 4c and 5 are end views of the device, and Fig. 6 is a broken perspective view of the lid with a seal applied.

The register consists of a cylindrical shell or jacket 10, provided with an opening 11 at one side extending practically from head to head, which opening is closed normally by a cover 12, semicircular in cross-section and sliding upon the exterior of the shell or jacket, the said cover having cars at its ends extending downward, preferably, to the center of the heads, at which points they are pivoted. Shafts 13 constitute the pivots for the cover, one being journaled in each head of the shell or jacket and extending some distance horizontally therefrom, and'upon'the outer extremity of each shaft a hand-wheel 14 or its equivalent is rigidly attached. The .5 5 inner ends of the shafts are firmly attached'k to the ends of a drum 15, located in the s'hellf! or jacket and capable of beingfreely rotated-- by the manipulation of the shafts. The drum has'produced upon itsperipheral surface, at 6:

predetermined intervals apart,-longitudinal ribs 16, each having an undercut longitu'di-i" nal recess in each of its side faces, as shown] in Fig. 3, constituting slideways a. Between one or more of the ribs a chamber A is. formed, covered by a lid 17 fitted in the slide ways of the ribs at each side of. the "char ber. This chamber is adapted to documents,such as bills flading, doc The surface compartments Broomp the uncut peripheral surface of the'drum-b tween the ribs, are adapted to recei'veiheficondition-cards of defects or other cards con-f taining the usual notices or information, and the cards are held in position upon the drum in their several compartments by having their side edges entered into the slideways a, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3. g

The cover of the chamber A may be removed and the cards removed and replaced through the medium of a semicircular slot 18, cut in one head of the shell or jacket, which slot is concealed by the jacket-cover when closed. The drum may be revolved by turning either of'the shafts 13, and the inner end of any desired chamber or compartment made to register with the jacket-slot 18.

The device is adapted for suspension beneath the car or coach, and the attachment is made, preferably, at or about the central portion of the car-bottom. The attachment consists of a rail D, pivoted centrally beneath the car and of sufficient length to extend practically to the sides thereof, being provided with handles 19 at its extremities. 5

The rail is usually constructed of a single piece of metal rolled or otherwise manipulated to form, preferably, a flat top 20 and straight sides 21, and the metal at said sides is carried inward toward the center and bent ICO practically upward to form two spaced tracks 22, upon which four or more grooved wheels 23 run, arranged in pairs. Each pair of wheels is pivoted to a down wardly-extending hanger 24, and each shaft 13 is journaled in a hanger, as shown in Fig. 2.

In order to prevent the shell or jacket from turning, one hanger is provided with an angular foot 25 at its lower end, one member of which foot enters and fills the space between lugs 26 upon one head of the shell, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. The rail is closed at its ends by buffer-blocks 27 or their equivalents.

In operation, if the inspector is upon the right-hand side of the car, upon reaching the rail D and pressing downward the right-hand end thereof the register will travel down the rail within convenient reach of the inspector, and by turning the mostconvenient shaft 13 and opening the cover 12 any of the cards in the compartments B may be rendered visible or the contents of the chambers A accessible. When a bill, manifest, or like document is placed in the chamber A, it is desirable to lock the lid to place. This is preferably accomplished by placing in the chamber an ordinary car-seal consisting of a strip of essentially T-shaped metal and permitting the ends of the strip to extend outward through openings made of the ends of the lid, as shown in Fig. (3, and the extremities of the strip are sealed with a lead seal orare united in any other convenient manner. The addition of the strip makes the lid so thick that it cannot pass through the opening 18. The strip is removed by the party empowered to do so.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a carregister consisting of a cylindrical shell provided with an opening and a cover therefor, a drum held to revolve within the shell and provided with peripheral undercut ribs forming surface compartments, and a longitudinal cavity formed between several of the ribs, constituting a chamber, which chamber is provided with a sliding cover, as and for the purpose specified.

2. A car-register consisting of a shell or jacket provided with an opening and a cover therefor, a drum held to rotate within the shell and provided with chambers and surface compartments, the chambers havin g sliding covers and the surface compartments side grooves, and shafts journaled in the shell and connected with the drum, as and for the purpose specified.

In a car-register, the combination, with a shell or jacket provided with a slot in one head and having a side opening and a cover therefor, of a drum held to revolve in the jacket or shell, provided with longitudinal chambers having sliding covers and surface compartments having grooved walls, shafts journaled in the shell and connected with the drum, a pivoted track, and hangers in which the shafts are journaled, provided with wheels adapted to travel upon said tracks, as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE W. TURNER.

\Vitnesses:

ANDY O. MYERS, ROBERT ASBURN. 

